# Commission for Regulation of Utilities (Ireland) — news — connector definition (see docs/connectors/cru-ie.md)
id: cru-ie
name: "CRU Ireland — news"
domain: www.cru.ie
kind: government
mode: sitemap
priority: 2
license: "Public sector information (Commission for Regulation of Utilities, Ireland); facts and links only"
attribution: "Commission for Regulation of Utilities (cru.ie)"
homepage: https://www.cru.ie/
notes: "Irish energy regulator: Large Energy User (data centre) connection policy, ECP connection rounds, National Energy Demand Strategy. The news index is client-rendered, so discovery uses the sitemap (lastmod is the build timestamp, identical on every URL). /publications/ is disallowed by robots.txt and excluded."
coverage: { countries: ["IE"] }
fetch:
  level: 1
  maxLevel: 2
  rpm: 10
  concurrency: 1
  respectRobots: true
  maxCreditsPerRun: 0
discovery:
  sitemap: ["/sitemap.xml"]
  include: ["^https://www\\.cru\\.ie/about-us/news/[A-Za-z0-9-]+/?$"]
  exclude: ["/publications/", "/ga/", "/about-us/news/?$"]
  classify:
    - { pattern: "/about-us/news/[A-Za-z0-9-]+/?$", group: newsroom, pageType: press_release, priority: 70 }
schedule:
  newsroom: daily
  sitemap: daily
extractors:
  news:
    pageTypes: [press_release, project_announcement, expansion, acquisition, construction_update, planning_document, power_infrastructure, utility_announcement, closure, cloud_region, financial_disclosure, facility_page, operator_page, unknown]
    kind: news_event
    parser: news_article_v1
    params: { keepText: true }